Dull Quotes · Page 12

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

— Samuel Johnson

“I doubt there’s one single dull thing about you. -Nash”

— M. Leighton

Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

— Nora Roberts

Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.

— Thomas Merton

Something that I've always been. Always lively. I don't want to be dull.

— Craig Sager

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

— Jim Butcher

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

— John Henry Newman

There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly…

— Thomas Sowell

“dull—she did not, with equal longing, wish to be a part of the whispering spinster chorus at the edge of other, more…

— Alice McDermott

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the…

— William Butler Yeats

Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we…

— Samuel Johnson

Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through…

— Lord Byron

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but…

— Samuel Johnson

If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't…

— Brandon Sanderson

Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be…

— Kristen Britain

That would be the frontispiece. This was a picture of my mother and me coming out of the United States Supreme Court,…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise…

— Beatrice Warde

A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and…

— Orhan Pamuk

Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the…

— Evelyn Underhill

“There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress, it doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away.…

— Graham Swift

I'm trying to figure out how someone could live in a brothel for a month and not notice. You must be terribly…

— Cassandra Clare

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new…

— Anonymous

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we…

— Carolyn Wells

I don't care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.

— Norm MacDonald

The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.

— William Shakespeare

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

— Bobby Fischer

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

— Lois Wyse

I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it

— Oprah Winfrey

Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.

— Horace Kephart

'The Robe' was lousy but an almighty hit. I was dull as ditchwater and an almighty flop.

— Richard Burton

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

— Oscar Wilde

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

— Anonymous

If I make a happy, happy movie one day, I'll think it's dull.

— Gaspar Noe

“Centre point of every meeting that will attended almost dull, if the process of sharp eye remains there.”

— KH Muawia Tariq

Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.

— Anonymous

If you look dull, the easiest thing to do is wash your face with water, and immediately you look refreshed.

— Emily Weiss